Little was outwitting, and resisting them.

They saw nothing for it but to stop him, by hook or by crook.
While they sat debating his case in whispers, and with their heads so close you might have covered them all with a tea-tray, a clear musical voice was heard to speak to the barmaid, and, by her direction, in walked into the council-chamber--Mr.Henry Little.
This visit greatly surprised Messrs.

Parkin, Jobson, and Potter, and made them stare, and look at one another uneasily.

But it did not surprise Grotait so much, and it came about in the simplest way.

That morning, at about eleven o'clock, Dr.Amboyne had called on Mrs.Little, and had asked Henry, rather stiffly, whether he was quite forgetting Life, Labor and Capital.